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In a new paper, education researchers from the University of South Australia (UniSA) say that while the technology may be innovative, ClassDojo encourages an archaic approach to school discipline and neglects a genuinely educational approach to developing behaviour.
Further, they express concern that the app conditions children to accept rising levels of surveillance and control.
"Class Dojo can be understood as yet another data-gathering surveillance technology that is contributing to a culture of surveillance that has become normalised in schools", said Jamie Manolev, a doctoral candidate at UniSA and the study's lead author.
Is ClassDojo helping parents learn what their kids are getting up to at school, or is it normalizing surveillance for students?
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Tuesday January 22 2019, @10:47PM (3 children)
You don't seem to understand, man!
That thing is used by 2nd-grade teacher to reward or warn kids about their behavior, but then they can keep track of it when it's time to sentence you for speaking against the Established Deep State Illuminati Order when you're 25 !
It's obvious, man ! Teach the kids early that the teacher has some kind of Authority over you, and your actions have consquences ! It's a plot by those giant commie participation-trophy government lovers who are soft on crime ! Totally makes sense.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @10:56PM
I recognize the sarcasm, friend. Well done!
All the same, teachers today are watched much more closely (and thank goodness!).
Back when I was a kid teachers were so much less authoritarian. Take Mr. Shapiro, my sixth grade teacher. He would yell and otherwise bloviate at the students, berating and demeaning 11 year-olds for trivial stuff.
And heaven forbid you should fall asleep in class. He'd motion for everyone to be quiet and then sneak over to the "offender's" desk with a hammer and bang on the desk with the hammer. Many desks had dents from the hammer. I sincerely hope that bullying piece of shit got his comeuppance. That would never fly today.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday January 22 2019, @11:15PM (1 child)
Training is training, whether it's the concept that somebody is always watching, or records are forever, or bodily restraint is something you should put up with.
My Kindergarten report card mentioned: "likes to make up his own rules..." nothing ever changes.
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(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 23 2019, @04:23AM
You are so right! Those evil gub'mint types just want to make you docile and complacent with all their "rules." If you want to dump battery acid in the town's water supply, who are they to say you can't? And what's all this interference with families? Your six year-old daughter needs to learn how to please a man and it's your responsibility to teach her. Those deep-state pigs don't want you to teach your family the right way to live.
You show 'em how wrong they are Joe! That's what AR-15s with high capacity magazines are for. amirite?
Why don't you head out to your local amusement park, get on the biggest roller coaster you can find and make sure the evil ride masters don't "restrain" you in the roller coaster car. They're just trying to control and condition you to accept being put in chains, and you're not going to allow that are you?
Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!